This visualization presents an aesthetic and holistic way of viewing local climate patterns and the relationships between various weather parameters. Playing with the Wikipedia common...

To meet demand for food, fuel and wood, countries are snapping up property beyond their borders

Looking at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — this visualisation shows how this has happened in the...

By creating and sending the data visualisations using analogue instead of digital means, dear-data is what artists have done for ages, which is sketch and try to capture the essence of the life...

Inspired by the polygon aesthetic of Pasquale D’Silvia's Trianimals & Bryan James’ Species in Pieces, this visualization creates animal images programmatically (in pure code), without...

This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...

Presidential candidates like to talk about leadership, but whom do they follow? Bloomberg Politics scoured the Twitter accounts of Republicans eyeing the White House for clues about their...

When Formula One began in 1950, cars were designed purely for speed and crash helmets were not compulsory. The sport was both new, and deadly, with 11 driver fatalities in the first...

Redburn is Europe’s largest independent equity research and broking firm and has a premium position in the market. Redburn IDEAS helps fund managers, sales people, and analysts understand and...

It’s the biggest news in the global economy right now: oil is cheaper than anytime since 2009. And the impact is as obvious as the sign at the corner service station, where gas is down to an...

Data visualization that mirrors vigorous urbanization being processed in every country across the world and top 500 biggest urban areas since 1975.

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom visualization design without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be bound to data fields using property drop zones; dynamically...

A graphics and data-rich profile of the man who creates the Madden Ratings, the numerical grades used in EA Sports' Madden NFL football videogame franchise. Published by...

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.

An infographic based on a survey of fears that I conducted, which focuses on the correlation of the age the fear began, how severe it is, and what type of fear it is. It also explores whether...

Which are the US cities with most STEM graduates, besides the usual suspects?

New York City's urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of...

Imagine if you could see the way the world is interconnected. News Explorer makes this possible by channeling IBM Watson's Alchemy News API—up-to-the-minute news, 250K articles a day, 70K...

40 years of divorce data in France. Infographics published in french newspaper Libération on july 11th to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the law establishing divorce by mutual consent.

Animal species are going extinct anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times the rates that would be expected under natural conditions. Arguably, the increase results from a variety of human-caused...

A timeline of aircraft models and indicating when the model has an accident. This shows interesting relationships about the safety of the models and how they each progressed.

The joys of the airport: Late or canceled flights. Long lines. Crowded terminals. Overpriced, appalling food. Bloomberg Businessweek surveyed more than 3,000 frequent flyers, analyzed travel...

Our baseball chronology series was developed for an exhibit featured at the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015. The series of four prints shows a visualized history of the major leagues: which teams...

Opening spread and following graphs about Kolbalt and the future of music for Wired UK, May 2015 Issue, pp.106-115, Features section.

"Digital design done right." Putting your users at the heart of design, to build better websites and products online.

Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events? @LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu

The visualization explores the levels of freedom in countries according to Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s flagship publication, that is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global...

We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...

It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator...

Meet the Millennials: one of the largest generations in history is about to move into its prime spending years. Millennials are poised to reshape the economy; their unique experiences will...